Sabado, Agosto 12, 2017

For the past
days I was glued at You Tube catching up with the Houses of Senate and
Representatives on how the P6.5 billion shabu (Methamphetamine Hydrochloride)
was sneaked before the eyes of the personnel of the Bureau of Customs through
the Green Lane (where shipments are not required to undergo inspection) and
found its way to a warehouse in Valenzuela.

“A tip of the iceberg, sannamagan,” I told myself when I arrived from work
while I sipped my coffee and watched our congressmen questioned, chided, rebuked,
and whatchamacallit their guests.

Let’s cut the
chase. In these hearing in aid-of-legislation and in aid-of-grandstanding as
people around the world watch some of these Senators and Congressmen strutted
their stuffs, I just learned that not all solons were intelligent and not all
the lawyers had the savvies of the law.

“Anong
klaseng tanong iyan ?!” I cried on a certain Congressman Sarmiento's
poser to a regular Customs honcho who was not appointee of Faeldon if the
latter policy was effective when he took the helm of the Bureau.

Salamabit, what
kind of poser was that?

Of course the
threatened Custom official would affirm in a positive way Faeldon’s style of
running the BoC otherwise he would be undermined.
I’m not talking here about Congressman Sarmiento because I did not meet him
yet.

But it should be
a lesson for us lesser mortals that not most of those elected in Congress are
intelligent. These sonnafabitch became congressmen or senators because they
have monies (where most if not some were stolen from the coffer) that
catapulted them into power.